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Monday, 19 April 2021

πŸ”– five minute, office-friendly lunches

Sunday, 18 April 2021

πŸ”– Bomboloncini

Thursday, 15 April 2021

πŸ”– Foundations of Databases

πŸ”– Foundations of Databases

Thursday, 18 February 2021

πŸ”– I will fucking increase the fucking thing

Using pinboard as a meme library

Tuesday, 09 February 2021

πŸ”– How to make much better home pizzas

Sunday, 07 February 2021

πŸ”– The computer built to last 50 years

Extended musing on the idea of a computer that is built to last, inspired by typewriters, which last and last and last.

Wednesday, 03 February 2021

πŸ”– How to Write a Job Ad (That People Actually Want to Apply For)

Monday, 01 February 2021

πŸ”– #Selfcare by Annalee Newitz

In a near-future San Francisco where the gig economy has made work more precarious than ever, Edwina is an average twenty-something scrambling to hold down her job with a major skin care brand. Until her awful boss does something you should never doβ€”angers the fae on social mediaβ€”and the struggles of her job take on an even nastier shade.

Thursday, 03 December 2020

πŸ”– Are you ageing correctly?

Heather Havrilesky is the prophet we need, not the one we deserve

Wednesday, 02 December 2020

πŸ”– Microservices — architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes

πŸ”– The Macro Problem with Microservices

Sunday, 29 November 2020

πŸ”– The Open Book project

I really love the idea, but the idea of me and a soldering iron I do not love

Thursday, 26 November 2020

πŸ”– Homemade Christmas-themed mixed drinks

πŸ”– Managers: What Do You Do When Your Teammate Shares Their Grief?

I haven't had many experiences where I really needed this, but when I did, I really did.

Sunday, 22 November 2020

πŸ”– Mission-Style Carne Asada Burrito

πŸ”– Mission-Style Carne Asada Burrito

πŸ”– MeFi posts tagged as stories

Saturday, 21 November 2020

πŸ”– The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

πŸ”– Fix GLX Initialisation errors

Ran into an error running wkhtmltopdf under xvfb-run, "Could not initialise GLX". While this had been running before, as early as last week, now seems I need to pass a server arg defining the screen

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